Senior Cloud Native Platform Engineer

Role description

Role Overview

Nscale is a GPU cloud engineered for AI, providing cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. The role involves building and improving shared cloud-native platform capabilities used by internal engineering teams to run AI applications and services.

What You Will Do

The Senior Cloud Native Platform Engineer will build and improve shared cloud-native platform capabilities, own significant parts of the platform area, improve the reliability, scalability, and supportability of platform services, and develop automation, tooling, and configuration to reduce manual effort and improve consistency.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience operating and improving Kubernetes-based platforms in production, solid experience with infrastructure automation, CI/CD, configuration management, or GitOps-style workflows, and a strong understanding of reliability engineering principles.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience operating and improving Kubernetes-based platforms in production
• Solid experience with infrastructure automation, CI/CD, configuration management, or GitOps-style workflows
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering principles, including observability, incident response, failure analysis, and operational readiness
• Experience writing production-quality automation, tooling, or backend code in Go, Python, Bash, or similar languages
• Good Linux fundamentals, including processes, filesystems, cgroups, service behaviour, and system debugging
• Good networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, and container or overlay networking concepts
• Experience debugging complex production issues across multiple system layers
• Ability to work independently on substantial technical problems while collaborating effectively with adjacent teams
• Experience mentoring or supporting less experienced engineers through practical technical guidance

Benefits

• Opportunity to help shape the operating standards behind a next-generation AI cloud platform
• Real ownership and impact in scaling high-performance, sustainable data centre operations
• Chance to play a meaningful role in complex infrastructure challenges